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Learning FC++: The C++ functional programming library(ibm.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
Haha, well I guess the fact that for a moment I felt that was condescending mostly says a lot about me ;)
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by yungchin 16y ago
Well that's exactly my criticism: most of the author's objections boil down to "it's hard". Note that I don't disagree with him (nor with you), but this just doesn't help to expose the real issues with Kurzweil's estimates. To "protein fold
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by yungchin 16y ago
As for the first answer: we all have to learn to deal with roundoff error. That's not by principle an obstacle. The other answer contains an implicit assumption that's not obviously correct: you suggest that complexity only arises when you
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by yungchin 16y ago
Actually I didn't find that very enlightening at all. Code or data - I'd say it's both, depending on your perspective. You need those instructions to build your proteins, after all. It's very lispy ;) The point is, he seems to suggest that
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by yungchin 16y ago
Yes, I think that's his point too. But if you believe that the little details of biology emerge from the underlying physics, then maybe you only need to code the fundamental rules and can have all the rest automatically.
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by yungchin 16y ago
This rant unfortunately fails to clearly demonstrate how Kurzweil errs. It goes on about complexity and emergence, but why would complex interactions not emerge from a computer simulation just as they do in the real biochemical system? Neve
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by yungchin 16y ago
Thanks, that's a good point (I should read Homesteading the Noosphere again :)). I guess I've not been aware of (or sensitive enough to pick up) any clear offences by Canonical in this respect. Maybe that's because I only subscribe to their
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by yungchin 16y ago
"If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention." 1. Poisoning the well is an ugly deba
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by yungchin 16y ago
Yes, intuitively I'd also expect it to take many generations. But the article's examples - Sweden, Japan (both effects established post-WWII I suppose), the North Carolina district (1990s!) - surprisingly suggest otherwise.
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by yungchin 16y ago
The better choices that you could make are only obvious if you can see the whole landscape of possibilities available to you. If you don't have that bird's eye view, and can only see your local optimum (which is centred on having children e
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by yungchin 16y ago
Hi, thanks for coming back! > [...] then yes, that 'neutrality' enforcement is about curtailing the ISP's revenues [...] But is that really what it's _about_? I think it is a result, but the aim isn't to affect their revenues, the aim i
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by yungchin 16y ago
The issue here isn't whether search engines or ISPs or other middlemen collect deserved or undeserved value; net-neutrality is not at all about capping the ISP's income! Net-neutrality rules are meant to ensure that the ISP will keep a leve
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by yungchin 16y ago
Oops, sorry, you're right. I would change the title, but I think the editing window has passed.
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New version [of ICC] is still crippling Intel's competitors(agner.org)
19 points by yungchin 16y ago|5 comments
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Citizen journalism not making up for loss of local newspapers(arstechnica.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
One thing that keeps amazing me about Spotify, is how there's seemingly zero latency when you jump to a new track. This is true for any track - even if you do a search query over the whole catalogue, then hit a random entry in the list of r
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by yungchin 16y ago
Right, that is the key to the issue I think: Spotify can't just include an MP3 decoder, unless they pay licensing fees to Thomson or Fraunhofer or whoever it was. On Windows/Mac, I guess they instead rely on the system-wide codec, but on Li
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by yungchin 16y ago
"This is a near-term fix, and the bottom line is that network operators are going to have to invest a lot of money in new technology to ensure they can cope with demand from their customers." As far as I'm concerned, this ought to be a perm
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by yungchin 16y ago
I don't see why Apple are making the effort. It looks like they won't be making any money from FaceTime directly, so then it's just a nice feature to help sell more Apple kit. Why not save a lot of development and infrastructure cost by pre
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by yungchin 16y ago
I always think that, somehow, everyone is confusing "intuitive" and "consistent".
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by yungchin 16y ago
There isn't even any need to wait for April Fool's, you can see them in action any time you want :) http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_topics/23?templates...
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DHTML Lemmings primer(crisp.tweakblogs.net)
15 points by yungchin 16y ago|3 comments
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Lessons From A Life With the Neural Impulse Actuator(lostcircuits.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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Improving site performance with cookie-free domains(acm.tweakblogs.net)
11 points by yungchin 17y ago|6 comments
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Android dev: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking(blog.rlove.org)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
That's a good point. From personal experience, I strongly suspect this is mostly due to lack of power-management in the GPU drivers. In fact, on machines with Intel integrated GPUs I've seen battery life as good as on Windows.
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by yungchin 17y ago
The demo is right there on their website - bottom left corner. Edit: apologies, that was such a short reply that it's at risk of coming across as snarky, but no such intent!
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by yungchin 17y ago
I had that experience of songs disappearing a couple of times too. But it's actually the rights holders who are doing us (and themselves) the disservice here, not Spotify. So I don't think that you'd be rewarding bad service by subscribing;
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Our Next Economic Plague: Japan Disease(english.caing.com)
2 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments

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